Thursday, 8 January 2009

Reducing cancer risk from meat...

Apparently some Portuguese researchers reckon that if you marinate meat in alcohol it reduces the likelihood of it giving you cancer. Might I suggest that not eating it in the first place will reduce the risk of it giving you cancer even further?

It puzzles me, why eat something that's likely to give you cancer? I mean, Cancer is supposed to be this big scary thing, you'd think people would want to avoid getting it. It's like cigarettes, people who smoke know it's bad for them and they know they're more likely to get cancer because of it, but they enjoy it or they can't stop so they don't stop. Same with meat I suppose. Red meat in particular is starting to get bad publicity, it's something to consume "in moderation" (only at all because the nutritional bodies/government know that not many people would take a blind bit of notice if advised to actually give it up altogther) rather than this wonderfood it sounds like it used to be marketed as. Meat-eating habits are like cigarette-smoking habits, it's bad for you but people enjoy it so are reluctant to give up their pleasure.